An annotated and revised checklist of pleurostome ciliates (Protista: Ciliophora: Litostomatea) from Slovakia, Central Europe
Author
Vďačný, Peter
Author
Rajter, Ľubomír
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Zootaxa
2014
2014-02-04
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10.11646/zootaxa.3760.4.1
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Loxophyllum meleagris
(Müller, 1773)
Dujardin, 1841
Loxophyllum meleagris
—
Hanuška 1971: 81
;
Matis & Straková-Striešková 1991: 114
;
Matis & Tirjaková 1992: 52
;
Tirjaková 1993: 134
;
Tirjaková 1997b: 27
;
Tirjaková 1998: 16
;
Tirjaková 2001: 16
;
Tirjaková 2003a: 37
;
Tirjaková 2004: 7
;
Krno
et al.
2006: 308
;
Tirjaková & Vďačný 2013a: 671
.
Nomenclature.
Matis & Straková-Striešková (1991)
erroneously ascribed this species to Ehrenberg using “(Ehrb.)” and
Matis & Tirjaková (1992)
to “
Dujardin, 1841
” who, however, only combined this species with the genus
Loxophyllum
.
Main morphological characters
(according to
Foissner
et al.
1995
). Length 200–700
×
50–150 µm
in vivo
. Body lanceolate with narrowly to broadly rounded posterior body end. Macronucleus moniliform with several micronuclei attached. Contractile vacuole dorsal and subterminal with long collecting canal. Two size
types
of extrusomes distributed along entire ventral margin:
type
I rod-shaped and about 10 µm long, while
type
II oblong and only 2.5 µm long;
type
I also clustered into 10–20 warts on dorsal margin. Somatic ciliary pattern
Loxophyllum
-like; 19–23 right and 9–11 left kineties.
Distribution.
Loxophyllum meleagris
was recorded in the Nitra River near the town of Šurany (
Hanuška 1971
); in thermal lakes of the Bojnice Spa at 12.5–29.5 °C and
pH
6.8–7.1 (
Matis & Straková-Striešková 1991
); in the backwaters of the Danube River in Čičov (
Matis & Tirjaková 1992
); in the periphyton and benthos of the Turiec River (
Tirjaková 1993
); in an oligotrophic stream in the National Nature Reserve Rozsutec, Malá Fatra Mts (
Tirjaková 1997b
); in the benthos from a Hron River tributary (
Tirjaková 1998
); in the benthos from various localities in the Gidra River (
Tirjaková 2003a
); in the benthos and mosses from the Hincov potok and Bystrý potok streams, High Tatra Mts (
Krno
et al.
2006
;
Tirjaková 2001
,
2004
); in the sediment from the littoral zone of the upper Váh River (
Tirjaková & Vďačný 2013a
).